pretentiousness

Example Sentences

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Some of X’s pretentiousness — she is given to statements like “To be rebellious and to distrust rebellion is the plight of the tragic artist” — bleeds over into the book itself.

From New York Times • Mar. 20, 2023

In her landmark essay "Notes on 'Camp,'" Susan Sontag defines the aesthetic as such: "artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess."

From Salon • Nov. 21, 2022

The class had been watching French New Wave films and Braden decided to parody their pretentiousness.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 24, 2022

There seems to be a really great sense of humor and lack of pretentiousness in Chicago and Illinois.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2022

He passed on, however, after a meaningless word or two and, sprawling in another section, surrendered himself to the troubled pretentiousness of the Pullman school of decoration.

From Ewing\'s Lady by Wilson, Harry Leon